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Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, CA Amy Brees, Lauren Dietrich and Ava Roy began envisioning performance events on Alcatraz Island in 2008. We share an awareness of the varied history and vivid energy of this island in the center of The Bay.
A few highlights from a historic performance of The Box, a play about solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, on the site of the former penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in June, 2019. The play is inspired by real people and real stories.
In an historic partnership, the National Parks Service and We Players presented Shakespeare’s Hamlet as an island-wide interactive experience. Offering unprecedented opportunities to enter areas ordinarily closed to visitors, the performance uses both intimate spaces and cinematographic vistas with simultaneous action on multiple levels.
Choreographer Lenora Lee and theater director Ava Roy will discuss San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island and Alcatraz Island as creative catalysts and settings for their site-inspired performances addressing migration, incarceration, and resistance.
Jun 23, 2019 · The former federal prison turned tourist attraction and occasional art gallery will serve as the perfect backdrop for this weekend's exclusive performances - already sold out - of The Box , a dramatic look at the effects of solitary confinement. It was written and directed by Sarah Shourd, who knows firsthand about such effects.
Jun 23, 2019 · Image by Elisa Day / Shutterstock. United States, 2019. The Box, a play about solitary confinement in U.S. prisons written by journalist Sarah Shourd, will be performed on the historic site of Alcatraz Island this June 13 to June 17, 2019, as part of a year-long exhibit, "Future IDs of Alcatraz," curated by artist Gregory Sale in coordination ...
